The new plant will provide Johnson Matthey with additional capacity for catalysts to meet the increase in demand from the introduction of tighter EU emissions legislation coming into effect from January 2014.

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Johnson Matthey has officially opened a new 60 million
extension to its European emission control catalyst
manufacturing facility in Macedonia, the company said on
Friday.

The new plant will provide additional capacity for catalysts to
meet the increase in demand from the introduction of tighter emissions legislation coming into
effect from January 2014 in the EU.

The facility, which uses world class design and manufacturing
equipment to produce a new generation of catalysts for both
light duty and heavy duty diesel applications, was opened by
Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.

The extended facility in Macedonia will have an additional
two manufacturing lines and brings the sites total
capacity to around 10 million catalysts. The site currently
employs 450 people and the extension will create an additional
200 jobs.

Johnson Mattheys initial investment in the Macedonian
facility has been a success, the company says. That
combined with projected increases in catalyst
demand are the main drivers for the expansion.

The new extended plant will predominantly produce SCR
(selective catalyst reduction) catalysts used to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen
(NOx) from diesel engines.

I would like to thank the Prime Minister and his
government institutions for their continued support over the
last five years," said John Walker, executive director of
Johnson Mattheys emission control technologies
division.

"Our facility here in Macedonia is seen as a benchmark of
manufacturing excellence within Johnson Matthey and is
recognized by our customers for its world-class manufacturing
design, technology and employees," he
added.

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Republic of Macedonia with the lowest taxes is the place to invest.It is good for business and job opportunity for the Macedonians.Macedonia's government of N. Gruevski is most honest in the Balkans and wider. To Johnson Mathey,congratulation on your extension and thank you for the support to Macedonia!

Tomi Ognjanovski11.09.2013

I am looking forward to see as soon as posibal, your investmants in Masedonija, in area near Tetovo. This is because I am an mechanical engineer with scecijality in hydrotechnic, pneumatics and automaticsm and I got right on professional title, with total score 8,81.I have an professional eksperiance for 15 years, working in this field.My English is verry good, also I am speeking Germanu language.The working activities that I have performed previosly consist of:-installation and commissioning of high process and high automatic equipement for completely automatic waste water treatment plants-constructing and designing of Hydraulis machines-mechanical maintenance of hydraulic and pneumatic systems-also team working,according previosly prepared plan for preformance, aii working activities were finished perfectly from my side and under my supervision.Also I am 41 years old, I have a wife and two children.I hope that mu letter of intent will be taken into consideratin durring deciding and positively recruit, because I was sennding this letter and my CV, a few times, from the begining od Jonson meti investmants in Macedonia, but I never got any answer.Please answer my letter and CV, this time.My mobil phone is:00389-71-223-942 and:00389-78-860-033, Best wishes